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The Outlook For The European CLO Market

The Outlook for The European CLO Market

Looking back to June 2016, when many of us were last in Barcelona for the Global ABS Conference, the outlook for the CLO market was clear. It was all gloom and doom. The market had just been shaken by the Brexit referendum result and then MEP Paul Tang gave it another blow when he proposed to increase the risk retention requirement from 5% to 20%. The overriding view at the time was that investors would retreat to the side lines and CLO issuance would slow down or stop altogether. Investment Bank Analysts rushed to cut their forecasts for the year with JP Morgan reducing its forecast for 2016 from  15bn to  10bn.

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